Tŝ’ilʔoŝ, also known as Mount Tatlow, is one of the principal summits of the Chilcotin Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the

Coast Mountains The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...

of southern British Columbia. Standing on an isolated ridge between the lower end of Chilko Lake and the

Taseko Lakes The Taseko Lakes are a pair of lakes, Upper Taseko Lake and Lower Taseko Lake, which are expansions of the upper Taseko River in the southern Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Their name is based on the orig ...

, it is in elevation. Southeast across the

is Taseko Mountain , the highest summit between those lakes and the

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, while directly south beyond Yohetta Valley (a deep valley which connects the relative lowlands around Chilko and

is the massif containing

Monmouth Mountain Monmouth Mountain, commonly known as Mount Monmouth is one of the principal summits of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of southern British Columbia. At , it is the highest summit of the Chilcotin Ranges. It stands just north of the Lillo ...

. Southwest across Chilko Lake is Mount Good Hope and due west, also across Chilko Lake, is Mount Queen Bess , the highest peak east of the Homathko River before the Waddington Range massif, which is at the core of the range and contains Mount Waddington .

Name

The name Mount Tatlow was officially adopted on 26 June 1911, as submitted on 23 June 1910 by Sidney Williams, and on 11 March 2019, the official name became Tŝ'ilʔoŝ as recommended by Tŝilhqot’in National Government and supported by the Cariboo Regional District, BC Parks, Avalanche Canda, and Recreation Sites and Trails. Tŝ’ilʔoŝ (''tsyle-oss'', the 'ʔ' represents a

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) is the traditional name in the language of the Tsilhqot'in people whose territory is in the area of the lakes and the plateau to their north, and has given its name to Tsʼilʔos Provincial Park which encompasses this area. Native tradition holds that it is unlucky to point at ''Tŝ’ilʔoŝ'', or to mention its name in casual speech; adverse weather and worse may result. The Xeni Gwet'in people, who reside in Nemaia Valley near Tŝ’ilʔoŝ, request that ''NO'' climbing of it and its neighbouring summits take place, and

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imposes those rules in its land-use guidelines on the area.

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External links

"Mount Tatlow, British Columbia" on ''Peakbagger''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tatlow Three-thousanders of British Columbia Chilcotin Ranges Landforms of the Chilcotin

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